Hardy Heron on V3658TU

After a long time waiting,finally Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Full version have been released on 24th of April 2008 at 10.00 PM,Malaysia time and leave my laptop downloading both Live-cd and alternate-cd while i’m slept.

Wakeup at dawn afther finished my solat then burn those iso into cd and begun upgrading the hardy heron beta to final version.However,it makes failed upgrade with the alternate cd when it come out lots of error existing software compatiblity then i decided to do the fresh installation on it.

Hardy Heron Rocks!!!that’s all i could say when it completely being installed.My laptop works fine with kernel-2.6.24-16-generic where it was default kernel suite with this virgin release.

phyz@phyz:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)
08:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
08:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
08:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
08:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)


All the modules works fine with this machine but i have to configure wireless connection only to make it works.From the previous 8.04 beta release,i have to install ndisgtk,ndiswrapper-1.9 and ndiswrapper-command in terminal


phyz@phyz:~$ sudo apt-get ndisgtk ndiswrapper-1.9 ndiswrapper-command


and install the driver for Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI which is provide for windows 32bit,bcmwl5.inf

then test the wireless connection by;


phyz@phyz:~$ sudo rmmod ssb
phyz@phyz:~$ sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
phyz@phyz:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper


after that,
i do some blacklist module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist for b43 at the end of blacklist file


#blacklist wireless module
blacklist b43


to make it auto-configure during the start up,i’ve add a few command there

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

rmmod ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
exit 0

save and reboot.

MYPHYNIX?

What da’name?

What?

myphynix?

The idea comes when i used to combine my nick which i’d love to use and at the same time i love to use linux as regularly operating system for my desktop and laptop.phynix defines as phyz-linux world…comes out with phyznix and later i just drop the letter of z turns to phynix but there was company use that name and someone do have used that nick.

Therefore,i put ‘my’ in front of it to define as malaysia thus it performs as ‘myphynix’

that’s all with the clumsy idea…hehehe

is it unique?unix?linux?hahaha…whatever

The continuous

The computer revolution of begun to be regular and my father bought personal computer with Intel Pentium 2 MMX processor suite with windows 98 around mid-year 1997 replaced the previous computer but i’ve started to explore internet late year 1998 after finished my secondary school.Lots of information can be found from internet and it gave me the opportunity to get to know better.I realized the application of computer is not stick around with the documentation preparations , internet sufing, playing games or multimedia but more than that.

During my time in polytechnic, i start to learn about windows from my friend.Start from playing with ms-dos command,fdisk partitioning,formating,windows installation,prepared the driver suite and some important application.Practice makes perfect and i done it on my own even i’ve tried lot of try and error.

The end year of 2003 for my first time,my mother gave a set of personal computer with Intel Pentium 4 hope that i won’t bother the existing previous one.I wondered what’s new in windows XP where people keep saying that this version much more better than windows 98,98se,ME and 2000 professional.

My very first started-point is by the experiment with linux into my personal desktop.I thought it was one of the kind of new version of windows xp but it isn’t.Lindows perform with easier installation and very nice desktop enviroment but at that time i was very shocked.After a few personal research,then i know it was the one of commersial-linux distribution where some application might need to be paid.From the computer related forums and websites, then i looked for the other distribution to be tested on my experimental-desktop with mandrake 8.2,mandrake 9,redhat 9,Fedora Core,SuSe 8.1,SuSe 9.1,Fedora Core 2 and the very first time i met ubuntu linux version 5.04.

The linux distro development runs smoothly ,the new distro and latest versiona come up with something out-of-box while i keep tracking instead i’m not one of IT Degree Student but Electronic Telecommunication Degree Student. Keep survival about linux on my own with getting the open-source matterials instead even some people says it was useless.

Keep moving on and on because of my innerself to achieve what i’d love to do. Realize that,i’m not the only one who using linux and there’s someone else is out there with the same interest.There’s some my members do have,we met to discussed,share,growth etc and it turns to be good friend.

Even thought i’d would like to get more experiences in Mac OS but i think it is better to learn linux further.As a one of newbie,there’s lot of things to work on and keep on digging to the core.

Is it we called just begun?

however tribute to my lovely parent who wasn’t given up in whatever i do along this journey

“well come to the OSS world”

My computer world…history???

Currently i put dual operating system on my compaq presario V3658TU with Windows XP Professional & Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS cause i’d need to use them.I’m sick to do the installation of windows xp on this laptop because of the sata hardisk and the driver for XP is hard to find.However,it’s easy to do for me and i’ve created the recovery image incase if the windows become corrupted.

Since i’d love to use the Open Source Software few past year ago.Yeah,at the first time i’ve heard about linux from one of my friend asking me about ‘lindows’.Fuh,i didn’t have any idea about that!And it was the end of year 2003,after finishing my diploma from polytechnic and started to give my interest to start exploring the other operating system.Actually,i’ve got very simple and basic knowledge with windows..

Back in year 1987 for my first time looked at the computer,year one in primary school…i guess.My childish is get to the computer looked for computer games..hahaha.In year 1991,my lovely father brought a x486 computer for personal use doing his works as degree student.It was windows 3.1 with star office(for word processing),lotus 123(like excel) and those simple application.One desktop with 4-6 windows folder.Then when windows 95 arrived,my father send the computer to upgrade the latest version which can performed better.

This naughty boy have corrupted that pc while my father not around and turns to be afraid being scold by him.About 2 week before my father get back home,i’ve start to look around any solution..asking for my friend either he knew or not(i think he acted like he knew but he don’t actually).Then the days comes and i’ve been punished for my mistaken.From that day,i’ve been warned not to touch that computer again..yeah,i admit it was all my fault.my little whishper,”I’m sorry,Ayah.”

But that’s not the end of my journey….

Intro…

Assalamualaikum & hi people out there…

This is my first blog related on the open source matters.Thus i’m not from the IT guys at all and didn’t have any certification of that however it comes from the heart to exploring something new.Maybe it will include with my personal linux-book-bank where i can access anytime and anywhere as long as i can connect through the internet.Or,it will be some good source to share with anyone…